The Witness Spirit

The Witness Spirit

I dwell in the spirit's calm nothing can move
    And watch the actions of Thy vast world-force,
Its mighty wings that through infinity move
    And the Time-gallopings of the deathless Horse.

This mute stupendous Energy that whirls
    The stars and nebulae in its long train,
Like a huge Serpent through my being curls
    With its diamond hood of joy and fangs of pain.

It rises from the dim inconscient deep
    Upcoiling through the minds and hearts of men,
Then touches on some height of luminous sleep
    The bliss and splendour of the eternal plane.

All this I bear in me, untouched and still,
Assenting to Thy all-wise inscrutable will.